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As Báez returns to Chicago, he sees something familiar in Tigers.
Veteran's playing time to be reduced so Detroit can see what it has in young players.
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Tigers 1 - Cubs 3: Cubs win series opener despite Torkelson’s 4-hit night.
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Tigers drop opener against Cubs at Wrigley Field, Torkelson goes 4-for-4.
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Detroit Tigers lose 3-1 to Cubs, Javier Báez strikes out four times in Wrigley Field return.
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August 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1886: Jack Rowe hits for the cycle for the Detroit Wolverines.
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1901: In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan $100.

1905: The Giants run past the Pirates, 10 - 2, with Christy Mathewson defeating Deacon Phillippe. New York swipes five bases including a steal of home by Art Devlin.

1917: Now with the Philadelphia Phils, Chief Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6 - 0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts and win eight with two losses and a 1.67 ERA. His mound partner from the glory days of the A's, Eddie Plank, will also close out his career, ending the season 5-6 for the St. Louis Browns with a 1.79 ERA.

1921: White Sox hurler Ted Lyons pitches a no-hitter, beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 6 - 0.

1926: At St. Louis, the largest crowd of the season cheer as the Browns sweep a pair from the Yankees, winning 5 - 4 and 10 - 0.

1931: Babe Ruth becomes the first major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs as the Yankees defeat the Browns, 11 - 7.
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1932: Wes Ferrell becomes the first 20th-century pitcher to win 20 or more games in each of his first 4 seasons, beating Washington, 11 - 5.

1934: Schoolboy Rowe gets his 15th straight win, en route to a career-high 24 wins.

1938: The West wins the 1938 East-West Game, 5-4, when Neil Robinson hits a 3-run inside-the-park homer between the legs of East CF Sammy Bankhead. Hilton Smith and Double Duty Radcliffe allow only one run in eight innings of relief for a struggling Sug Cornelius.

1945: Rudy York goes 3-for-5 with a home run, but the Tigers lose to the Athletics 7-6. They split a doubleheader while Washington wins to trim the Tigers' lead in the pennant race to one game.

1948: Representatives of Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, meeting in Havana, agree to stage a 4-country round-robin 12-game tournament to be known as the Serie del Caribe (Caribbean Series) and to be launched in Cuba during February 1949. The Dominican Republic and Mexico will also later participate on a regular basis.

1951: Bob Feller wins his 20th, stopping the Senators, 4 - 0, and keeping the Indians a game ahead of the Yankees. Feller is the American League's first 20-game winner this season.

1953: Major league player representatives Ralph Kiner (National League) and Allie Reynolds (American League) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 per annum to give legal advice to players in their negotiations with the owners.

1960: In the 28th year of the Negro Leagues East-West Game, the last game at Chicago's Comiskey Park was played before approximately 5,000 spectators and almost no media coverage. The West squad beat the East 8-4. The game would be played for two more years in other cities before ending.

1961: In their first appearance in Boston since moving to Milwaukee, the Braves defeat the Red Sox, 4 - 1. Warren Spahn pitches the first inning, striking out rookies Chuck Schilling and Carl Yastrzemski. The exhibition game is for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.

1966: Rare footage from The Beatles concert at Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati.


1968: Monte Irvin is named special assistant to Commissioner William Eckert.

1968: Jim Price hits a pinch hit walk-off home run in the 10th inning to beat the White Sox 3 - 2 at #TigerStadium.

1971: Mickey Lolich allows six hits as Detroit beats the Brewers 7 - 2. It is Lolich's 20th win of the year.

1980: After giving up a first-inning single to Rob Wilfong, Jack Morris one-hits the twins for a 4 - 2 Tigers win at Met Stadium. He still managed to give up two unearned runs on Roy Smalley rbi groundouts in the first and ninth innings.

1981: Tigers win over the rangers 7 - 4, Yankees lose, Tigers move into a half game lead in the AL East.

1982: Brewer reliever Rollie Fingers become the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeat the Mariners, 3 - 2.

1984: At Detroit, Lance Parrish cracks a first-inning grand slam off Lary Sorensen, Darrell Evans goes 4-for-5 with a 3-run home run, and the Tigers drive by the A's 12 - 6. Milt Wilcox goes six innings for the win. Tigers are 83-44.

1987: Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run as Atlanta beats Pittsburgh, 5 - 4. He stroked his 1500th hit on August 5.
Andre Dawson belts his 39th and 40th home runs of the season and Lee Smith picks up his 30th save in Chicago's 7 - 5 win over the Astros.

1991: Cecil Fielder and fellow slugger Skeeter Barnes each go 3-for-5 with a home run in the Tigers' 12-9 win in Chicago.

1993: The Tigers trade OF Rob Deer to the Red Sox for a player to be named. Deer will homer tomorrow in his first at bat for the Sox.

1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Boever as a free agent.

1996: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Parent.

1997: Curtis Pride of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2011: The Tigers score 7 runs off Cleveland's Ubaldo Jimenez in the 3rd, including homers from Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but the Indians slowly claw back. In the 4th, both benches are warned when Tigers starter Rick Porcello throws a pitch behind Asdrubal Cabrera shortly before being chased from the game. In the 6th, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ejected by third base umpire Alan Porter for arguing a tag play at the base on Wilson Betemit.
Detroit closer Jos? Valverde then pitches the 9th with a one-run lead, but puts the first two men he faces on base courtesy of a walk and a hit-by-pitch. After Jack Hannahan's successful sacrifice bunt, he gets pinch-hitter Matt LaPorta to fly to short center field; CF Austin Jackson then unloads a superb throw to the plate that nails Kosuke Fukudome trying to score from third base, for a spectacular game-ending double play. Detroit completes a three-game sweep with the 8 - 7 win and Valverde has now been perfect in all 37 of his save opportunities this year.

2013: With a 1st-inning single off Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Ichiro Suzuki gets his 4,000 hit between Japan (1,278) and the United States (2,722). He is only the third player to reach the milestone at such a high level, following Ty Cobb and Pete Rose, who both collected all their hits in the United States major leagues. Only one other Japanese player, Isao Harimoto, had 3,000 hits.

2014: David Price allows 1 hit and 1 unearned run in a 1-0 loss to his former team, the Rays. He becomes the first pitcher in major league history to lose a complete game one-hitter with no walks and no earned runs.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Marc Krauss.

2016: The Detroit Tigers released Bobby Parnell.

2018: Zach McAllister of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2018: JaCoby Jones receives the Tigers #HeartandHustle Award from Al Kaline.

2019: In spite of pitching a two-hitter against his former team the Tigers, Houston's Justin Verlander ends up on the losing end of a 2 - 1 decision as both hits are solo homers, by John Hicks and Ronny Rodriguez. Hicks' blast to lead off the 9th breaks a 1 - 1 tie while four pitchers limit the Astros to a single run. The game ends as Robinson Chirinos, trying to complete a cycle, is gunned down at third base trying to stretch a double into a triple.

2023: The Cleveland Guardians selected Eric Haase off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

Tigers players birthdays:

Gerry Staley 1961.

Andujar Cedeno 1996.

Dean Crow 1998.

J.D. Martinez 2014-2017.

Dustin Molleken 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

Lew Post 1902.

Rufus Smith 1927.

Bob Uhl 1940.

Russ Kerns 1945.

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Since the July trade deadline, in which the Tigers traded away 4 veterans, Detroit has a winning record so far in August – 9 wins, 7 losses. Five of those games went into extra innings with the Tigers winning 3 of them.
Of note is that they have only allowed to be shut out just 1 time.
They have accomplished this despite having only 2 true starting pitchers left in their rotation and 4 key players who were still on the IL (Carpenter, Greene, Meadows and Olson). Within the past 2 weeks, they’ve called up 9 rookies.

Through Sunday’s games, they are now only 3 games under .500 and have MLB’s 19th best record. Their performance so far is better than last year’s.
Kerry Carpenter, Riley Greene, Tyler Holton, Colt Keith, Parker Meadows, Reese Olson and Tarik Skubal have shined very brightly this year.
Andy Ibanez, Wenceel Perez and Matt Vierling are showing they are solid players.
Dillon Dingler, Jace Jung, Keider Montero and Trey Sweeney are starting to show some promise even though it is early.
Casey Mize and Spencer Torkelson are still question marks.

Do you feel the Tigers have finally turned a corner? That the core Scott Harris said the Tigers need is starting to fall into place?

Have the Detroit Tigers finally turned a corner in developing a core competitive roster?

1. Yes.

2. Not 100% sure but it's looking good.

3. No.

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Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene feels 'comfortable' in legs in return from injury.
The Tigers want Malloy, a below-average defender, to continue his development in the corner outfield positions.
"I didn't want him to feel like he did anything wrong," Hinch said. "He put up some really good at-bats. ... He can't just be on the bench or designated hitter. We're going to get him a lot of time in the outfield."
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The kids are all right: Sweeney, Meadows, Greene lead way in 'W'.
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Tigers 8 - Cubs 2: The kids are more than alright.
There’s a real youth movement in the Tiger lineup these days.
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Tigers bounce back with three homers in 8-2 rout over Cubs.
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Detroit Tigers' Trey Sweeney hits first home run of MLB career in 8-2 win vs. Chicago Cubs.
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August 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1857: Hall of Famer Ned Hanlon was born this day in Montville, CT.
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1905: Umpire John Sheridan forfeits a game to Washington in the 11th when the Tigers refuse to resume play after a lengthy dispute. Washington is ahead 2 - 1 at the time of the forfeiture.

1915: In the 2nd inning of game one of a doubleheader versus Detroit, the crowd sees the Senators score a run with no times at bat, the only time it's ever happened. Chick Gandil and Merito Acosta walk; Rip Williams sacrifices, and George McBride hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Gandil, and the Tigers catch Acosta off second base when OF Bobby Veach throws to Ossie Vitt. Washington's Walter Johnson goes on to win and snap the Tigers' 9-game win streak.

1926: After three games with the Tigers are rained out at home, Connie Mack and Tom Shibe decide that Sunday baseball is entitled to be played. Armed with a court injunction preventing police from interfering, they play the first Sunday game ever seen in Philadelphia. A light rain holds the crowd to 10,000, but Lefty Grove sets down the White Sox, 3 - 2, without incident. A court later rules Sunday baseball still illegal; it will be 1934 before that law changes in Philadelphia.

1927: The Yankees lose their fourth straight for the first time, 9 - 4 to the Indians, despite Babe Ruth's 40th home run. Detroit wins its 13th straight, moving up to second, 12 1/2 games back.

1931: Newark (International) purchased George Quellich from the Detroit Tigers.

1933: Hank Greenberg has the first of 35 multi-home run games. He also gets the first of his six career walk-off home runs. Tigers beat the senators 10 - 8.

1934: Rudy York makes his big league debut with the Tigers.

1934: P Wes Ferrell hits two home runs in a 10-inning, 3 - 2 win for the Red Sox over the White Sox. It is the second time this season he has a pair of homers, and the third in his career. He will hit 2 home runs in a game 6 times before he finishes.

1938: Carl Hubbell has an arm operation for bone chips in his elbow and is finished for the season.

1939: Happy Birthday Yaz! Boston RedSox legend Carl Yastrzemski was born in Southampton, NY on this day.
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1939: The Detroit Tigers purchased Clay Smith from the Cleveland Indians.

1946: Clubs approve a change to a 168-game schedule, but they will rescind the decision at another meeting on September 16. Television is first recognized, with clubs given rights to their own games. Players jumping to outlaw leagues will not be allowed to apply for reinstatement for five years.

1947: The first Little League World Series tournament is held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

1948: The Dodgers steal eight bases, including a 5th-inning triple steal with Jackie Robinson on the front end. But the Braves win, 4 - 3, to move two games ahead of second-place Brooklyn. In the last 19 steal attempts against the Braves, no Dodger has been thrown out.

1951: The Dodgers sweep a pair of 10-inning games from St. Louis, with Clyde King picking up both come-from-behind victories. King goes three innings in game one and one inning in game two. Jackie Robinson is 5 for 6 in the nitecap including a 2-out single in the 10th off Al Brazle.
Andy Pafko has a homer in the nitecap, while Stan Musial hits his 29th in the first game. Carl Furillo has three hits on the afternoon and a pair of assists in game 1, bringing his season total to 21. The Dodgers have now won 14 straight from the Cards.

1956: Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, born this day in St Pau, MN.
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1959: The Redlegs' Frank Robinson hits three home runs in a row against St. Louis, as the Redlegs win 11 - 4. Robby has six RBIs.

1961: Roger Maris, in his record-setting season, becomes the first player to hit his 50th home run in the month of August. The 26-year old all-star outfielder connects off Ken McBride as the Yankees lose to the Angels, 4 - 3.

1965: Juan Marichal thinks Johnny Roseboro throws too close to his head returning the ball to Sandy Koufax and attacks the Dodger catcher with his bat. The Los Angeles backstop suffers cuts on the head during the 14-minute brawl.

1967: Indian pitcher Luis Tiant has 16 strikeouts in a 3 - 2 win over California.

1968: Jim Merritt loses his shutout in the 9th inning when Mickey Mantle parks a pinch homer at the Metrodome.
The Twins win, 3 - 1. Mick's homer ties him with Jimmie Foxx for 3rd place on the all-time list.

1968: In a game marred by a fight between Dick McAuliffe and Tommy John, the Tigers beat the White Sox 4-2. Mickey Lolich won in his first start since July 28th. Back to back HRs by Al Kaline and Willie Horton gave the Tigers the lead that Don McMahon made hold up.

1972: The Tigers and A?s have another brawl in the 7th inning of a loss, setting up bad blood in that year?s ALCS showdown between them.

1974: Before a crowd of 35,866, the largest in 18 years at Fenway Park, the Red Sox turn back the A's, 3 - 0. Luis Tiant wins his 20th for Boston this year. Boston (70-54) now leads the American League East by seven games.

1978: Ron LeFlore sets an American League record with his 27th straight successful stolen base attempt as Detroit beats the Twins 7 - 3. He began the streak on July 16.

1982: Ernie Banks becomes the first Cub to have his uniform number (14) retired.


1984: Tigers score at least 11 runs for the 3rd straight game. Tigers score 11 without a home run and only 3 XBH and beat the a's 11 - 4.
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1985: The Detroit Tigers released Doug Bair.

1989: Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan records his 5,000th career strikeout! The victim: Oakland A's batter Rickey Henderson.


1997: The Tigers pound the Brewers 16 - 1, with the aid of 23 hits and an 11-run 7th inning. Bobby Higginson gets five hits for Detroit, while Travis Fryman and Tony Clark drive in four runs apiece.

2002: As part of a 3-team trade: The Oakland Athletics sent a player to be named later, Franklyn German and Carlos Pena to the Detroit Tigers.
The New York Yankees sent Jason Arnold (minors), John-Ford Griffin and Ted Lilly to the Oakland Athletics.
The Detroit Tigers sent Jeff Weaver to the New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers sent cash to the Oakland Athletics.
The Oakland Athletics sent Jeremy Bonderman (August 22, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2007: The Rangers rout the Orioles, 30 - 3, to set an American League record for runs. They score 9 more in the nightcap to set the AL record for runs in a doubleheader, breaking the previous mark of 36 held by the 1937 Tigers. The 1950 Red Sox and 1955 White Sox had previously held the single-game AL record of 29. No team had scored 30 in the major leagues since the Chicago Colts in 1897. Travis Metcalf, just back from the minors, drives in 8 in the twin bill. In the first game, Metcalf and Marlon Byrd both homer. David Murphy goes 5 for 7 with 5 runs. #8 hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia and #9 hitter Ramon Vazquez both homer twice and drive in 7. Every Ranger scores at least once with Murphy and Saltalamacchia both crossing home five times. Vazquez scores the 30th run with a 3-run 9th-inning homer off Paul Shuey.

2011: Detroit's Justin Verlander continues his dominance on the mound, earning his major league-leading 19th win in the Tigers' 5 - 2 victory over the Rays. It is his 7th consecutive winning start. Alex Avila, hitting .424 in August, hits a two-run homer off Jeff Niemann in the 2nd to send the Tigers on their way.
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2019: The Royals make a special trip to Fenway Park on what was a scheduled off-day in order to play the final innings of their game of August 7th against the Red Sox that was suspended by rain with the teams in a 4 - 4 tie in the top of the 10th. To ensure there will be fans present to cheer them on, the Sox put on a special admission price of $5 for adults and free for children 18 and under, with all profits going to the Jimmy Fund, the team's charity of choice. It works as over 16,000 people turn up to see 12 minutes of action before Brock Holt ends it by driving in Chris Owings, pinch-running for Christian Vazquez, from second base on a base hit to left with one out in the bottom of the 10th. Both teams then need to rush out to catch a plane, with K.C. headed to Cleveland, OH and Boston to San Diego, CA. Meanwhile children in the stands are allowed to run the bases and can go home happy.

2021: Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers becomes the 28th member of the 500 Home Run Club with a solo homer off Steven Matz of the Blue Jays.


2022: The Detroit Tigers released Wily Peralta.

2023: The Yankees lose their ninth straight game, 2 - 1, against the Nationals as C.J. Abrams hits a go-ahead homer in the 8th; it is their longest losing streak since 1982.

2023: In the midst of a difficult season, the White Sox clean house upstairs, firing Executive Vice-President Kenny Williams and his successor as General Manager, Rick Hahn.

Tigers, and Detroit Stars, and Detroit Wolverines players birthdays:

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Ned Hanlon Detroit Wolverines 1881-1888.

Al Bashang 1912.

Bill Gatewood Detroit Stars 1920-1921.

Wally Schang 1931.

Doug Bair 1983-1985.

Jeff Weaver 1999-2002.

Randy Wolf 2015.

Ryan Carpenter 2018-2019.

Drew Hutchison 2021-2022.

Tigers players who passed away:

Harry Lochhead 1901.

George Cutshaw 1922-1923.

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