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Don Wert, one of Tigers' heroes from 1968 World Series champion, dies at 86.
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Don Wert, Detroit Tigers All-Star third baseman on 1968 World Series team, dies at 86.
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Báez to undergo season-ending hip surgery.
Hinch: 'It'll be a long process, but hopefully, it'll be a successful one'.
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Javier Báez To Undergo Season-Ending Hip Surgery.
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Tigers Injury Update: Javy Baez season-ending surgery, Casey Mize, Alex Faedo.
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Javier Báez injury: Detroit Tigers shortstop to undergo season-ending right hip surgery.
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Báez hit .184 with six home runs, 12 walks and 69 strikeouts in 80 games in 2024, completing the third season of a six-year, $140 million contract with the Tigers. Entering Monday, Báez ranked as the second-worst hitter in baseball among 285 players who stepped to the plate at least 250 times, with a .516 OPS.
 
Jace Jung powers Tigers to sweep with brother Josh in stands.
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Video highlights of the Tigers win over the white sox.

Tigers 6 - White Sox 3: How sweep it is.
The Tigers officially find themselves at the .500 mark.
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Tigers pointed in right direction, sweep White Sox to reach .500
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Detroit Tigers climb back to .500 with 6-3 win vs. White Sox in Ty Madden's MLB debut.
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August 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: Cy Young pitches a 15-inning complete game for the Boston Americans in a 2-1 win over the Tigers.

1907: Christy Mathewson fashions a 3-hit shutout over the Cardinals and drives in the only run with a double. Ed Karger takes the hard-luck loss.

1909: The Detroitnews publishes a photo exonerating Ty Cobb in a spiking controversy.
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1911: Chicago's Ed Walsh pitches a 5 - 0 no-hitter against the Red Sox. A 4th-inning walk produces the only Red Sox runner.
After going 18-20 in 1910, Walsh bounces back to win 27 and lead the league in games (56), IP (369), and strikeouts (255).

1912: In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the National League will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants' Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The American League will not make ERA part of its official statistics until 1913.

1915: Detroit sweeps a doubleheader form the yankees 8 - 1, and 11 - 3.
Sam Crawford has 3 hits and 2 RBI in each game of the twin-bill.

1917: At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3 for 4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.

1918: Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in the chemical warfare branch of the Army.

1919: The Detroit Tigers purchased Sammy Hale from San Antonio (Texas).

1929: Rogers Hornsby has four hits and Sheriff Blake allows six to lead the Cubs to a 4 - 1 win over the Reds. Chicago now leads by 14 1/2 games, the greatest lead a National League team has enjoyed at this stage since the 1906 Cubs.

1935: The Yankees outslug the White Sox, 13 - 10, in the first game of 2. In the second game, Lou Gehrig ties an American League record with five walks as the Yanks lose, 4 - 3.

1938: Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with Cleveland, an 8 - 7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the 2nd game, winning his 10th straight game, 13 - 0. The Yankees, playing their sixth successive doubleheader, increase their lead to 12 games.

1939: In the second 1939 East-West Game, Josh Gibson drives in four and Ed Stone gets three hits to lead a 10-2 rout by the East.

1946: At the Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes racist Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allowed to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit, as revealed later in the report: "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.

1955: Dodger bonus baby Sandy Koufax fans 14 Redlegs in a 7 - 0 win.
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1957: Stan Musial, swinging at a fourth-inning pitch, tears a muscle and chips a bone, ending his consecutive game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21, officially giving him 895 consecutive games played.

1961: Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game with 6 rbi, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington. Tigers pitcher Don Mossi improves to 14-3 in game 1, and Paul Foytack is the complete game winner in game 2.

1962: The 36th and last Negro Leagues East-West Game is played in Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. The moribund Negro American League will disband within two months.

1963: Tigers 4 - Angels 1, Al Kaline homers (24th) with 2 RBIs (90 on season). Kaline is unable to finish the season due to ongoing leg issues and is used as a pinch hitter late in the season.
Kaline finishes at .312/.375/.514 and once again finishes 2nd in the MVP vote (1955), and is named the Sporting News American League Player of the Year for the 2nd time (1955) in his legendary career.

1968: Tigers lose on a walk-off single in Chicago, while the Orioles sweep a doubleheader to pull within 4 games in the AL.
It's their slimmest margin since the All-Star Break, but the Tigers will go on to win the pennant by 12 games.

1970: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Jim Thome born this day in Peoria, IL.
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1971: Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first major league start, lasts 2 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.

1972: The Tigers' Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning 2-run home run to beat Minnesota, 5 - 3, in the opener of 2.
In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the 3rd win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.

1978: The Reds' Joe Morgan belts his 200th homer to become the first player in history to have 200 homers and 500 stolen bases.

1982: Oakland A's legend Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brock's single-season stolen bases record! Rickey would steal three more bases that night to bring his season total to 122.


1984: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and cash to the Cincinnati Reds for Bill Scherrer. The Detroit Tigers sent Carl Willis (September 1, 1984) to the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade.

1995: Catcher Mike Piazza collects four long hits - 2 doubles and two home runs, including a grand slam - good for seven ribbies, to lead the Dodgers to a 9 - 1 victory over Philadelphia. Piazza is now hitting .367, tied for the lead in the major leagues.

1996: The Houston Astros traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Gregg Olson. The Houston Astros sent Kevin Gallaher (minors) (August 27, 1996) and Pedro Santana (August 27, 1996) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1999: Major league umpires are warned by the league presidents that they will be fired if they strike next week. There has been talk of a strike over baseball's refusal to allow 22 umpires to withdraw their resignations, which are effective on September 2nd.

2003: The Detroit Tigers released Steve Sparks.

2005: Jeff Kent becomes the first player to hit 300 homers as a second baseman. The Dodger infielder, who surpassed Ryne Sandberg's total of 277 last September, is the major league leader at this position with Joe Gordon holding the American League record with 246.

2007: Tigers blast the Yankees 16-0. Justin Verlander holds New York to 3 hits in 7 innings. Placido Polanco goes 3-for-5 with a home run.

2011: Justin Verlander does not pitch one of his better starts, giving up four runs, including a pair of solo homers to Luke Hughes and Jason Repko, and leaves after giving up his second hit of the day to Drew Butera, who is hitting well below the Mendoza Line, with no out in the 6th, but his teammates pick him up and he gets credit for the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Twins.
This makes him the major leagues' first 20-game winner this year, the first in the majors to reach the mark in August since Curt Schilling did it with Arizona in 2002, and the first for the Tigers since Bill Gullickson in 1990.
Jose Valverde picks up the save with a perfect 9th inning. He has now converted 40 straight save opportunities over two seasons, tying Dennis Eckersley for the second-longest streak in American League history, but still 14 behind Tom Gordon's record of 54.

2014: David Price of the Tigers has a historically bad outing in a start against the Yankees. In the 3rd inning, he allows a base hit to the first 9 batters he faces before being lifted; he is the first pitcher to allow 9 straight hits since Bob Forsch on August 3, 1989, and ends up allowing 8 earned runs on 12 hits in only 2 innings, something accomplished by only three other pitchers before him. For their part, the Yankees fall one shy of the American League record for consecutive hits as they win, 8 - 4.

2015: Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz rules against Barry Bonds in his claim that teams colluded to keep him out of the game after he broke the all-time home run record in 2007.

2018: The Detroit Tigers released Nick Tepesch.

2020: Another seven major league games are postponed on the second day of protests across the sports world against police brutality and racism, following the postponement of three games yesterday. The most poignant moment takes place at Citi Field where players from the Mets and Marlins take their position on the field, observe a 42-second moment of silence in memory of Jackie Robinson, then walk off as Marlins OF Lewis Brinson drapes a "Black Lives Matter" tee-shirt over home plate.

2021: The Detroit Tigers released Renato Nunez.

2021: In the 60 plus years since expansion, no player in history had ever hit a pinch-hit inside-the-park home run to give his team the lead.
Then Victor Reyes steps up in a 1-1 game in the 8th against the Blue Jays.


Tigers players and managers birthdays:

Bun Troy 1912.

Baldy Louden 1912-1913.

Em Lindbeck 1960.

Buddy Bell manager 1996-1998.

Jordy Mercer Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jordy Mercer 2019-2020.

Tigers players who passed away:

Alex Remneas 1912.

Em Lindbeck 1960.

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GIVING CREDIT.
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Days Of Roar Tigers Podcast: Tarik Skubal's Cy Young-caliber season as explained by Nick Pollack, plus other Detroit Tigers pitching topics. 75 minutes.
The Detroit Tigers beat up the White Sox in Chicago as part of a seven-game road trip to the Windy City against the Cubs and White Sox. Are the White Sox the worst team we've ever seen? It's quite possible. More importantly, can the Tigers exceed a .500 record in the 2024 season? The lineup features three new regular players in Dillon Dingler, Jace Jung and Trey Sweeney. How do those newcomers fit with mainstays like Riley Greene, Kerry Carpenter and Colt Keith? Also, is Spencer Torkelson ever going to stay hot? After the break, Nick Pollack, the founder of PitcherList, joins the Days of Roar podcast to discuss the Cy Young-caliber season of Tarik Skubal, who ranks first in ERA (2.58), first in wins (15) and tied for first in strikeouts (193) among MLB pitchers. His best pitch is the changeup, but it's a seam-shifted wake changeup. Pollack explains exactly what that is. He also discusses other topics about the Tigers' pitching department, including Keider Montero, Reese Olson, Casey Mize, Matt Manning and players to target in upcoming free agency. To wrap up, we discuss the MLB debut of Ty Madden and if injured shortstop Javier Báez has played his final game with the Tigers.
 
Parker Meadows has been one of the most valuable players in the AL this month. His 1.1 fWAR so far in August is only topped by Aaron Judge (2.5), Bobby Witt Jr. (1.9), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (1.4), Jarren Duran (1.4), Juan Soto (1.2), and José Ramírez (1.2).
 
The Tigers have announced the following roster moves:
Selected RHP Ty Madden from Triple A Toledo.
Recalled RHP Mason Englert from Triple A Toledo.
Placed RHP Will Vest on the paternity list.
Following yesterday’s game, optioned LHP Bryan Sammons to Triple A Toledo.
Transferred INF Javier Baez to the 60-day injured list.
 
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