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Remembering Former Tiger Third Baseman Tom Brookens.
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Tigers 4 - Red Sox 1: Torkelson and Greene go deep.
Just like the Tigers drew it up, right?
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Hurter deals, Torkelson and Greene homer as Tigers clinch series over Red Sox.
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Spencer Torkelson, Riley Greene blast Detroit Tigers to 4-1 win over Boston Red Sox.
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Tigers get 2 big blasts, take series from Red Sox.
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With his 20th home run of the season, Riley Greene joins an impressive list of Tigers, as Jason Benetti tells us.
 
September 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1850: Hall of Famer Albert Goodwill Spalding was born 1850 in Byron, IL.
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1901: Detroit sweeps a Labor Day doubleheader from Washington, picking up an American League record 21 infield assists in game 2. This is still the AL record. SS Kid Elberfeld has 12 assists to back up Roscoe Miller.

1909: Tigers win their 14th straight, against Boston, to open up a 5 game lead over Philadelphia, en route to their third straight pennant.
Detroit completes a sweep of every series against visiting eastern teams, winning their 14th in a row to regain first place by a half game en route to their 3rd straight pennant.
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1912: In a rainy doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, Red Sox ace Joe Wood tops the Highlanders in the nitecap, 1 - 0, for his 30th win and his 13th straight victory. It is Wood's 8th shutout and second in a row. Boston takes the opening squeaker, 2 - 1 to finish the year in New York with 10 wins in 10 tries. With three wins last year, and five wins in their first five road games with New York in 1913, Boston ties the major league record for most consecutive wins on the road against one team (18).

1912: At Boston, Christy Mathewson wins both games for the Giants in a 5 - 2, 6 - 1, sweep of the Braves. In the opener, Matty relieves Rube Marquard in the 9th with the score at 2 - 2 and tosses three shutout innings. Larry Doyle ends it with a 3-run homer in the 12th. Matty coasts to his 19th win in the nitecap after the Giants chase Ed Doheny with five runs in the 3rd.

1916: The Cleveland Indians purchased Marty Kavanagh from the Detroit Tigers.

1917: The first-place White Sox take a pair from the Tigers, winning, 7 - 2 and 6 - 5. The Sox bunch four in the 1st and three more in the 3rd to make the shine ball's leading proponent, Ed Cicotte, a winner over Willie Mitchell. In the nitecap, the Sox snap a tie in the 9th when Eddie Collins, with one stolen base already, swipes second and third base after a walk. Joe Jackson's sac fly brings him home.

1919: The National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series. The lengthier series is seen as a sign of greed and is abandoned after three years.

1922: At Detroit, the Browns win their second in a row over the Tigers, 5 - 4. Hub Pruett allows three hits in four innings to win in relief. George Sisler hits in his 30th consecutive game.

1929: The Cubs beat the Cards twice, 11 - 7 and 12 - 10, before 81,000 fans at Wrigley Field. A crowd of 38,000 sees the morning game and 43,000 watch the afternoon game. Rogers Hornsby has two home runs and Hack Wilson has one.

1932: Lew Krausse of the A's shuts out the Red Sox, 15 - 0. Five days later Krausse will injure his arm in an exhibition game against the Stroudsburg Poconos and though only 20 years old, his big league career will be over.
In 1961, Lew Krausse, Jr. will pitch a shutout for the Kansas City A's in his major league debut, giving the Krausses (father and son) back-to-back shutouts twenty-nine years apart.
But Lew Krausse Jr. will forever be remembered by this Tigers fan as a dirty rotten bastard who intentionally threw at and hit Al Kaline breaking his arm on May 25, 1968 in Game 2 of a doubleheader.

1939: When Babe Dahlgren strikes out while being given an intentional walk and George Selkirk and Joe Gordon try to steal home on successive pitches by trotting to the plate, Red Sox fans throw a barrage of garbage onto the playing field at Fenway Park to protest the Yankees making deliberate outs to take advantage of the 6:30 Sunday curfew. Umpire Cal Hubbard rules the Boston crowd's action makes it impossible to continue the game and awards the game as a forfeit to the Yankees with a 9 - 0 'official' score.

1955: Cubs middle infielder Ernie Banks sets the record for home runs hit by a shortstop by hitting his 40th dinger in a 12 - 2 rout of the Cardinals. 'Mr. Cub' will extend the record finishing this season with 44 and will hit 48 in 1958.

1955: Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle celebrate Billy Martin's return from the army; Ford throws 6 innings of no-hit ball against Washington before Carlos Paula spoils it in the 7th with Washington's only hit. The Yanks win, 4 - 2, as Mantle hits his 36th home run, a 3-run shot. Mantle is 10 homers ahead of rivals Al Kaline and Ted Williams. New York stays a half-game behind the White Sox, who beat the 3rd-place Indians. Billy Martin will hit .300 in September, and New York will go on a 17-6 tear to win the pennant by 3 games.

1958: At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th-inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year off Sisler. New York wins, 6 - 1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.

1960: Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams homers off Senator right-hander Don Lee. At the beginning of his career Williams hit several home runs off Lee's dad, Thornton.
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1961: Against Detroit's Frank Lary, Roger Maris doubles and takes third base on a misplay. Mickey Mantle, hurting from a pulled muscle in his forearm, lays down a perfect drag bunt to score Roger. Maris then blasts homers his next two trips to the plate, and Elston Howard adds a three-run homer, for a 7 - 2 win.

1962: Stan Musial's 3,516th hit jumps him over Tris Speaker and into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the all-time list. Although Stan The Man will continue on to 3,630 hits, he cannot overtake Cobb and, in time, Pete Rose and Hank Aaron will surpass him.

1963: Tigers get back-to-back RBIs by Rocky Colavito and Al Kaline in the 3rd inning and Hank Aguirre holds the Yankees the rest of the way in a 2-1 win.

1965: The Cubs beat St. Louis, 5 - 3, at Wrigley Field, as Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run, a three-run shot off Curt Simmons in the 3rd. Simmons teed up the 400th home run of Willie Mays in 1963. Banks will end the season with 28 home runs and 106 RBI. Ron Santo and Billy Williams will also knock in over 100 runs, the only team with three such sluggers, but the Cubs will finish 8th.

1965: The New York Mets retire Casey Stengel?s uniform #37 during a short ceremony at Shea Stadium!


1966: Phillies ace Jim Bunning continues his whammy over the Mets by shutting them out, 6 - 0. It's Bunning's 8th complete game in as many starts against them, and his 5th shutout. The Mets have scored a total of four runs off Bunning.

1967: Twins shut out the Tigers to take a half game lead over Boston and a 2.5 game lead over Detroit.

1969: The San Francisco Giants traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Don McMahon. The San Francisco Giants sent Cesar Gutierrez (September 2, 1969) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1970: Detroit's Gene Lamont homers in his first major league at bat, but the Red Sox this time hold the lead and beat the Tigers. The Tigers win the opener, 6 - 4, scoring two unearned runs in the 8th.

1971: The Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all-Black starting lineup in Major League history.

1972: Bill Freehan and Mickey Stanley hit home runs in the 11th inning in Oakland to give the Tigers' a 3 - 1 win and their 4th 11th-inning win in the last 8 games. The Tigers and Yankees are a half game behind Baltimore, with Boston 1 game out.

1973: The Tigers fire Billy Martin due to continuous differences with the front office.

1980: Mark Fidrych gets his first win since 1978 in Tigers 11 - 2 win over the white sox.

1984: Tigers beat the a's 6 - 3. Dan Petry wins his 16th and Willie Hernandez with Save 27.

1986: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Ken Hill to the St. Louis Cardinals for Mike Heath.
The Detroit Tigers sent Mike Laga (September 2, 1986) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.

1987: Tom Candiotti pitches his second one-hitter of the season, but also walks seven batters and makes an error as the Indians lose to Detroit 2 - 1. Matt Nokes' single with two out in the 8th is the Tigers' only hit.

1988: OF Fred Lynn, obtained by Tigers on 8/31, cannot play in the postseason because his plane was 10 minutes late, contacting the O?Hare tower at 12:10 CDT. MLB rules state that a player must report to his new club by midnight local time August 31 to qualify for postseason play.

1988: The Detroit Tigers signed Chris Bando as a free agent.

1994: According to acting commissioner Bud Selig, September 9 is the tentative deadline for canceling the rest of the season if no agreement is reached between the owners and players in the labor conflict.

2000: The Tigers honor Detroit Stars legend and new HOFer Turkey Stearnes at Comerica Park.


2001: The Detroit Tigers traded C.J. Nitkowski and cash to the New York Mets for a player to be named later. The New York Mets sent Kyle Kessel (minors) (December 13, 2001) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2012: Justin Verlander allows a homer to lead-off hitter Alejandro de Aza, but then settles down, as the Tigers win, 4 - 2, over the White Sox. They are now even with Chicago atop the AL Central. Delmon Young hits a three-run homer off Chris Sale, who is charged with the loss.

2014: J.D. Martinez hits a game-winning 3-run home run in the 9th and the Tigers beat the indians 4 - 2.

2016: Tigers win on a Miguel Cabrera RBI single in the 9th his 4th RBI of the game and beat the royals 7 - 6.

2019: By shutting out the Yankees, 7 - 0, the Rangers put an end to a streak of 220 games during which the Bronx Bombers had not been shut out, the second longest in history, behind the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig team of 1931-1933 that still holds the all-time record with 308 games. Rangers ace Mike Minor does the bulk of the work, keeping the Yanks scoreless for 7 1/3 innings.

2020: The family of Hall of Famer Tom Seaver announces that he has passed away on August 31st at age 75, after suffering from Lewy body dementia for some time, a condition aggravated by COVID-19. One of the greatest pitchers of all time, he remains the biggest icon in the history of the New York Mets.

2022: Yu Darvish reaches a rare milestone with a strikeout of Cody Bellinger in the 5th inning of the Padres' 7 - 1 win over the Dodgers: this gives him 1,750 Ks in ten major league seasons, and this gives him 3,000 when the 1,250 he amassed in seven seasons in Japan are added. Among all pitchers who have struck out 1,000 or more batters on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, only Hideo Nomo has preceded Darvish in reaching the mark.

Tigers players birthdays :

Fred Payne 1906-1908.

Luke Walker 1974.

Nate Snell 1987.

Johnny Paredes 1990-1991.

Dusty Ryan 2008-2009.

Kerry Carpenter 2022-present.

Tigers players who passed away :

Joe Hoover 1943-1945.

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OPEN MIKE.
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On this long holiday weekend, we welcome readers to share their thoughts about the Tigers or baseball in general. Your observations, comments and questions. Extra credit to those who create topics or questions that generate thoughtful dialog threads.
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Sparky didn't feel 'Blessed' in '84.
The 1984 season is revered by Tigers fans, but for the skipper it was a year of torment.
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September 3 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: Eddie Cicotte makes his major league debut with the Tigers. Will later be suspended from baseball as one of the eight "Black Sox".

1906: Ty Cobb is back in the Detroit lineup for the first time in six weeks. He has a single and steal, but he misplays a Charlie Hemphill fly ball into a home run, and the Tigers lose 1 - 0 to the Browns'. Rain stops the game after seven innings.
This might be the game Cobb was allegedly eating popcorn in the outfield.

1906: The Philadelphia Giants win the Negro Championship Cup on Labor Day in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans, black baseball's largest crowd ever. Rube Foster pitches them to a 3 - 2 victory over the Cuban X-Giants, who have John Henry Lloyd in the lineup.

1906: Kid Elberfeld, the hot-headed Tabasco Kid, assaults umpire Silk O'Loughlin and is forcibly removed by police in the first game of a doubleheader, a 4 - 3 New York win over the Athletics. In the second game, New York baserunner Willie Keeler collides with SS Lave Cross trying to field a ground ball, and two runs score. O'Loughlin sees no interference, a call so hotly disputed by A's captain Harry Davis that, after eight minutes of arguing, the umpire forfeits the game to New York. For New York, it is a major-league record 5th straight doubleheader sweep in consecutive days.

1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Brad Kocher from the New York Highlanders.
1910: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ed Lafitte from the New York Highlanders.

1917: In a twinbill that will resonate for years, the White Sox sweep a pair, to give them 4 wins in the last two days, from the Tigers winning, 7 - 5 and 11 - 8, while the Yankees sweep a pair from the Red Sox. Chicago now leads the Red Sox by 6 1/2 games. Detroit takes the lead in the morning game, driving Red Faber from the mound in the 5th, but Ray Schalk's triple in the 8th seals the win for Chicago. In the afternoon contest, Detroit again chases Faber and scores seven runs in the 2nd and 3rd innings to take the lead, but Schalk's three-run homer in the 4th, off Bill James, puts Chicago in a lead they never relinquish. Ed Cicotte takes the p.m. game with six innings of relief, while Lefty Williams pitches three innings of hitless relief to win the a.m. game. The Sox run wild on the bases, stealing seven bases against Oscar Stanage in the opener and five against Archie Yelle in the second game. Two weeks from now, while staying at the Ansonia Hotel in New York, the White Sox will collect $45 from each player as a gift for the Tigers, allegedly as a thank you for beating the Red Sox. But suspicion will linger that some Tigers threw these two critical doubleheaders and Ty Cobb, though he had three hits, will be included in the accusations.

1924: Nip Winters of the Hilldale Club no-hits the Harrisburg Giants, 2 - 0, at Harrisburg's Island Park. It is the first no-hitter in the history of the Eastern Colored League and the second of Winters' career. He misses a perfect game when Jake Stephens bobbles an easy grounder.

1928: The A's are set back as the Senators stop them twice, 6 - 1 and 5 - 4.
Ty Cobb now in his second year with the Philadelphia Athletics makes the last of his 4,191 hits, the 724th double of his career, as an A's pinch hitter in the 9th inning. 22 years with the Tigers, and now finishing with 2 years with the A's, Cobb will retire holding over 90 Major League records.

1932: Against the Red Sox, Jimmie Foxx of the A's poles his 50th and 51st home runs to become the third player to reach 50 in a season, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson. Foxx's 2nd homer, in the 9th, ties the game at 4 - 4, and Eric McNair follows with a game-winning home run.

1934: Labor Day doubleheaders define the standings for the final pennant surge. Detroit, rained out in Chicago, holds a 5-game lead over the Yankees, who split a pair with the A's. Lefty Gomez wins his 24th and 10th straight in the opener, and Jimmie Foxx hits his 40th homer in the second.

1934: Washington's player-manager Joe Cronin collides with Boston's Wes Ferrell in a play at first base. Cronin fractures a bone in his arm and is out for the season. The Senators, last year's champs, will finish 7th.

1936: The Cleveland Indians purchased Joe Heving from the Detroit Tigers.

1938: Rudy York of the Tigers hits his 4th grand slam, tying the ML season record, in the Tigers 11 - 4 win over the white sox.

1939: With the 6:30 Sunday curfew approaching, the Yankees start making deliberate outs, stalling to avoid a loss in Boston. Irate Fenway Park fans litter the field with cushions and debris. Umpire Cal Hubbard forfeits the game to the Yankees, but American League President Will Harridge subsequently overrules him, calling the game a 5 - 5 tie and fining the Yankees for their tactics.

1944: Tigers lose to the St. Louis Browns to fall behind them by 2 games. They will finish the season one game back of the Browns, who won their first and only pennant.

1947: At Fenway Park, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio lead the way with four hits each as the Yankees bang out a total eighteen hits, all singles, defeating the Red Sox, 11 - 2.

1954: Ted Williams of the Red Sox hits his 362nd home run to put him in 5th place on the all-time list.

1957: Warren Spahn of the Braves hurls his 41st shutout, the most by a National League lefthander, as he beats Chicago, 8 - 0.

1958: The Yankees spot Boston a 5 - 3 lead before Mickey Mantle homers in the 8th and Yogi Berra cracks a 3-run homer in the 9th to win it, 8 - 5. Mantle and Berra each have 85 RBIs for the year.

1961: Yankees rally and walk off on home runs by Mickey Mantle & Elston Howard to sweep the Tigers & open up a 4.5 game lead over them in the pennant race. Mantle and Roger Maris become the first teammates to hit 50 home runs each in a season.

1961: Al Kaline hits 2 doubles in game 1 of a double header loss to the orioles, en route to a career high and AL-best 41 on the season. This season is also the last that Kaline plays in 150 or more games due to serious injuries and ailments.

1967: Before a Twins crowd of 43,494, Detroit's Earl Wilson pitches a 5 - 0 shutout to narrow the Twins' lead to half a game over the Tigers. The win is Wilson's 19th.

1968: Trailing 3-2 in the 9th in Oakland, the Tigers rally to take the lead on a Jim Northrup 2-run single, and win 6-3.

1969: Willie Horton hits 2 home runs in the Tigers' 4-2 win in Kansas City. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-NZCzjW...pg&name=medium

1971: Owner Phil Wrigley takes out newspaper ads criticizing the Cubs players who want to dump manager Leo Durocher. A postscript adds, "If we could only find more team players like Ernie Banks." Banks will play his last game on September 26th.

1972: Steve Carlton shuts out the Braves, 8 - 0, for his 8th whitewash of the season. This is the most shutouts for a Phillies pitcher since Grover Alexander in 1917.

1973: After 11 years at the helm (944-806 .539), Ralph Houk resigns as Yankee skipper. The "Major" will manage the Tigers next season

1980: Trailing Chicago by 3 runs with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers rally to win on only 1 additional hit: Champ Summers is HBP, Duffy Dyer gets an RBI groundout, Rick Peters singles, and a WP to Alan Trammell scores pinch runner Dave Stegman.

1981: The Red Sox and the Mariners play 19 innings to a 7 - 7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning, 8 - 7, in 20 innings when the suspended game is resumed the next day, making it the longest game played in Fenway Park history.

1984: Tigers lose to the Orioles 4 - 1 for their 6th loss in 7 games, while the Blue Jays win to cut the Tigers' lead to 7.5 games.

1988: Lou Whitaker suffers season-ending knee injury while dancing at an anniversary party with his wife.
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1992: Baseball owners vote 18-9, with one abstention, calling for the resignation of Commissioner Fay Vincent.

1995: Tony Clark makes his big league debut.

1995: The Mets outslug the Giants, 11 - 6, despite Barry Bonds hitting the Giants' 11,000th franchise homer. Barry's father, Bobby Bonds, hit the 8,000th franchise homer exactly 24 years ago, on this day in 1971.

2002: Andy Van Hekken (1-0), with a fastball topping out in the mid-80s, becomes the first American Leaguer to throw a complete game shutout in his debut since Mike Norris in 1975, and the first Tiger since Schoolboy Rowe in 1933.
He stops Cleveland 4 - 0. The Holland, MI native was 5-0 at Toledo (AAA) before his promotion.

2011: Tigers beat the White Sox 18-2, scoring 26 unanswered runs after trailing the Sox 8-1 in the 5th inning of their previous game. Alex Avila goes 4-for-6, Miguel Cabrera hits a home run and a double.
The White Sox rough up Brad Penny for 8 runs over 5 innings, including home runs by Alexei Ramirez, Alejandro de Aza and Brent Morel, to take an
8 - 1 lead over the Tigers, but the Bengals stage a dramatic comeback. They claw back to enter the bottom of the 9th trailing 8 - 6, then Ryan Raburn hits a two-run homer to tie the score and Miguel Cabrera follows with a walk-off home run, both shots traveling well over 400 feet at Comerica Park. The 9th-inning power outburst earns Luis Marte his first major league win.

2012: Tigers complete a sweep of the White Sox to tie them atop the AL Central. Delmon Young hits a 3-run home run off Chris Sale to give the Tigers a 4-2 win.

2013: Tigers lose 2-1 to john lester and the red sox. Max Scherzer falls short in his bid to become the second ever pitcher to start 20-1.

2014: Tigers score 7 runs in the 11th inning to win 11-4 in Cleveland.

2015: In the Nationals' 15 - 1 win over Atlanta, OF Bryce Harper does not have an at-bat but scores four runs, as he draws a walk in each of his four plate appearances. Only three other players have ever scored four runs in a game without an at-bat: Larry Doby in 1951, Joe Morgan in 1973 and Rickey Henderson in 1989.

2017: Former Tiger J.D. Martinez becomes the 18th player in major league history to hit 4 home runs in a game.

2019: The Detroit Tigers released Ryan Carpenter.
2019: The Detroit Tigers selected Troy Stokes Jr. off waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays :

Bill Armour manager 1905-1906.

Bill Moore 1925.

Steve Boros 1957-1958, 1961-1962, Minor league assistant 1996-2002,
Player development assistant and assistant GM 2003-2004.

Bill Gilbreth 1971-1972.

Luis Gonzalez 1998.

Nate Robertson 2003-2009.

Dave Clark coach 2014-2020.

Tigers players who passed away:

Tony DeFate 1917.

Rip Sewell 1932.

Baseball Reference
 
QUICK HITS.
Totally Tigers

Let’s continue to run with last week’s format of listing a larger number but shorter stories about the Detroit Tigers. Quick hits.
There’s something here for everyone to ponder.
Let’s get to it. Here are 10 topics that hit me over the past week.
 
Pirates Claim Joey Wentz.
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