September 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: The Reds commit 17 errors in a doubleheader at Brooklyn, losing 7 - 2 and 13 - 9, the most errors in one day by any team in the 20th century.
Iron Man McGinnity closes both games for Brooklyn; he has worked in every game for a week.
1908: New York tops the Superbas, 6 - 3, for a sweep of the five-game series with Brooklyn. The Giants score four in the 8th, including a long triple by Christy Mathewson, to put the game away.
1908: A day after beating the A's Eddie Plank, 2 - 1, Washington's Walter Johnson is forced to start again, this time replacing sore-armed Charlie Smith. Remarkably, Johnson records his 5th complete game victory in nine days.
1911: Ty Cobb has 3 hits, including a triple in the 13th inning that sets up the game-winning run in the Tigers' 9-6 win in Cleveland.
1911: In the nightcap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9 - 0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11 - 2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on first base in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a double play (8-4-1-3). New York wins the first game, 9 - 3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.
1916: Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth, both pitching on two days rest, square off. Washington scores two runs in the 9th when John Henry lines a bases-loaded double off Ruth to tie the game, 2 - 2. Boston scores in the 10th, but Washington tallies twice off Ernie Shore to win, 4 - 3. Johnson is the winner.
1923: Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-5 with a double and a triple to raise his batting average to .395 in the Tigers 6 - 4 win over the senators. "Slug" will finish at .403 to win the AL batting title.
1925: In Detroit's loss to Cleveland, 3 - 1 in 13 innings in the first game of a doubleheader, Detroit's Jackie Tavener hits a major league-record-tying three triples. Benn Karr goes the distance for the win. Detroit then takes the nitecap 3 - 2.
1929: Dale "Moose" Alexander goes 2-for-4 to raise his batting average to .353 in the Tigers 2 - 1 win over the red sox. Dale will finish at .343, a Tigers rookie record that still stands.
1932: With their 100th victory of the year, the Yankees clinch the American League pennant as George Pipgras beats the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 8 - 3. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, who captured a flag with the 1929 Cubs, becomes the first manager to win pennants in both the American and National Leagues.
1936: Charlie Gehringer hits two doubles, en route to an AL-best 60 doubles on the season, in the Tigers 10 - 1 win over the yankees.
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1938: Hank Greenberg hits his 50th home run of the season in a 4-3 win over the White Sox. His 3rd homer in the last two games moves him closer to Babe Ruth's season record of 60, with 20 games to play.
1939: The Detroit Tigers selected Cotton Pippen off waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics.
1940: Mickey Lolich born on this day in Portland Oregon. In 1968 he tossed 3 CG victories in the World Series to give the Tigers the championship. The rubber-armed lefty led MLB w/ 25 wins, 376 IP and 308 K's in 1971.
1947: Pirates' outfielder Ralph Kiner hits a record eight home runs in four games. Tony Lazzeri had hit seven round-trippers in four games in 1936.
1953: Carl Erskine defeats the Braves, 5 - 2, as the Dodgers clinch the pennant earlier than any other team in National League history up to that point.
1954: A standing-room-only crowd of 84,587 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which establishes the record for the largest crowd to have ever watched a major-league baseball game, witness the pennant-bound Indians sweep a doubleheader from the Yankees, 4 - 1 and 3 - 2. On this bright sunny day, over 12,000 fans are without seats and stand 10-11 rows deep behind the outfield fences as well as 3-5 rows deep in walkways.
1958: The Giants sweep the Phillies, 5 - 2 and 19 - 2, as Willie Mays has six hits to raise his average to .333. Jim Davenport tops him with seven hits, including a 3-run inside-the-park home run in the 1st inning of game 2, and scores seven runs.
1961: Tigers break a tie in the 8th inning on a a Norm Cash sac fly and Steve Boros RBI single to win 3-1. Bill Bruton goes 3-for-4 with a triple.
Frank Lary pitches a CG for his 20th win, en route to a league-leading 22 complete games.
1962: In the dugout in Cincinnati, Willie Mays collapses from nervous exhaustion. He is taken to the hospital and will miss four games. The Giants lose, 4 - 1, and will lose their next six to take them apparently out of the race.
1962: Washington's Tom Cheney sets a major league mark with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game at Baltimore. Bud Zipfel's 16th-inning home run off Dick Hall gives the Senators a 2 - 1 win.
1962: In Cleveland, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle lead the way to a Yankee win, 5 - 2. Mantle hits a 3-run homer in the 5th off Pedro Ramos, his 2nd favorite all-time cousin (12 homers allowed).
1969: Juan Marichal (18-10) pitches a one-hitter, as the Giants beat the Reds, 1 - 0, but Atlanta takes the National League West lead by beating Houston, 4 - 3. Tommy Helms' 3rd-inning single is the only hit in what Marichal calls "my best game ever."
1974: Detroit P John Hiller picks up his 17th win in relief, an American League record, as he beats Milwaukee 9 - 7.
Tom Veryzer hits a walk-off 2-run home run in the 10th inning.
1976: DH Minnie Minoso singles for the White Sox against the Angels' Sid Monge. Said to be 53, Minoso is considered the oldest player ever to collect a hit in the major leagues, although he is in reality three years younger than his listed age, as will later be discovered.
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1976: Mark Fidrych shuts out the Yankees 6 - 0 at Yankee Stadium.
1979: Carl Yastrzemski reaches the 3000 hits milestone when he singles off Yankee Jim Beattie.
1980: Mark Fidrych leaves the game with shoulder pain after 6 pitches. He will make just 2 more starts for the Tigers.
Tigers beat the indians 6 - 3.
1983: Lou Whitaker goes 3-for-5, en route to a career-high batting average of .320 on the year. Tigers beat the indians 5 - 1.
1983: Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell are profiled in Sports Illustrated.
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1991: Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his 10th game, beating the Twins, 4 - 3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it in 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list.
1995: The Milwaukee Brewers traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Kevin Wickander. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Derek Hacopian (minors) (September 12, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1995: Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker set an American League record with their 1,915th appearance as teammates.
Whitaker hits a walk-off home run, the last long ball of his career.
1997: Jody Reed of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1999: Before a crowd of 50,027, the Red Sox finish their 3-game series at Yankee Stadium with a 4 - 1 win for a sweep. It is the first 3-game sweep at Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox since 1986.
2003: Tigers beat the Royals to snap a 6-game losing streak. At 38-108, they remain at risk of matching the '62 Mets' mark of 120 losses in a season.
2006: Carlos Guillen hits a walk-off home run in the rain to give the Tigers a 3-2 win over Texas.
2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Bruce Rondon as an amateur free agent.
2012: Miguel Cabrera goes 3-for-5 in the Tigers' 8-6 win over the White Sox. Tigers pull within one game of the Sox in the Central.
2015: David Ortiz of the Red Sox becomes the 27th member of the 500 home run club by going deep twice, both times off Matt Moore, in a 10 - 4 win over the Rays.
2016: Miguel Cabrera homer #440 in the Tigers 4 - 2 win over the twins.
2021: Max Scherzer of the Dodgers becomes the 19th pitcher in history to reach 3,000 strikeouts when he fans Eric Hosmer of the Padres in the 5th inning. Not content with that mark, Scherzer has one of his greatest days: he records the third immaculate inning of his career in the 3rd, joining Sandy Koufax and Chris Sale as the only pitchers to do so, and takes a perfect game into the 8th before Hosmer doubles with one out to break the spell. He will be the only baserunner Scherzer allows in 8 scoreless innings as he strikes out 9 and ends up an 8 - 0 winner.
2022: Mike Trout homers for the seventh straight game, off Konnor Pilkington of the Guardians, but in something that is typical of their season, the Angels still lose, 5 - 4. Trout is one away from the record of 8 games, held by Dale Long, Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr. and has 35 homers, second in the AL behind runaway leader Aaron Judge in spite of playing in just 100 of his team's 141 games so far this year.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Boss Schmidt. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Charles 'Boss' Schmidt 1906-1911.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Pepper Peploski. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Pepper Peploski 1913.
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Ole Olsen 1922-1923.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Charlie Keller. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Charlie Keller 1950-1951.
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George Freese 1953.
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Mickey Lolich 1963-1975.
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Scotti Madison 1985-1986.
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Mark Thurmond 1986-1987.
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Masao Kida 1999-2000.
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Jose Urena 2021.
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Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Frank Dillon. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Pop Dillon 1901-1902.
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Bernie Boland 1915-1920.
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Ole Olsen 1922-1923.
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Augie Johns 1926-1927.
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Lou Kretlow 1946, 1948-1949.
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Tigers 11 - Rockies 0: Colorado rocked by Montero’s Maddux.
Meadows homers on second pitch, Tigers romp over Rockies, 11-0.
Keider Montero throws complete game as Detroit Tigers roll Colorado Rockies in 11-0 win.
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Keider Montero throws a gem as Tigers rout Rockies, 11-0.
