September 24 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: Christy Mathewson shuts out the Pirates, 2 - 0, while Bill Klem continues his battle with the Giants by tossing four more, including John McGraw.
1908: Washington's Walter Johnson three-hits Cleveland to win, 2 - 1. The loss stops Cleveland's win streak at 10.
1911: After 41 straight shutout innings, Grover Alexander is scored on by the Cards in the 6th inning.
1913: Christy Mathewson scatters 11 Brooklyn safeties, walks none, to beat Ed Reulbach, 2 - 1. It is Matty's 25th win. He will finish the year with 25 victories and 21 walks in over 300 innings.
1920: In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the 1st inning, off the Senators' Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in a 4-for-4 second game, a 2 - 1 win, to give the Yankees a sweep.
1921: Harry Heilmann is 3 for 4 against Walter Johnson, but Washington wins the game over Detroit, 5 - 1. Ty Cobb is so incensed by the umpiring of Billy Evans that he challenges him to a fight. The two future Hall of Famers go at it with Cobb getting the best of Evans. George Hildebrand, the second umpire assigned to the game, reports the incident to American League president Ban Johnson. When Johnson fails to act, Commissioner Landis steps in and suspends Cobb, but allows him to continue as a non-playing manager.
1923: Detroit pitcher Ray Francis, with a 3 - 0 lead over the Yankees, issues a bases-loaded walk to Babe Ruth, but hangs on for the victory.
1927: Tigers lose to NY Yankees, who set a major league record with their 106th win.
1928: The Tigers draw 404 fans for their last meeting with the Red Sox, winning 8 - 0 behind Sam Gibson's 5-hitter. Pat Simmons is knocked out in the 7th when he gives up consecutive triples to Al Wingo, batting 9th, John Stone, and Charlie Gehringer. Harry Heilmann has a home run and double for Detroit.
1929: Charlie Gehringer goes 3-for-4 with a home run and 2 triples in the Tigers 9 - 4 win over the browns. He will go on to lead the American League in runs, hits, doubles, triples, and steals on the season.
1931: Lefty Grove wins his 31st, beating the Red Sox, 9 - 4, his 11th straight win over the Red Sox stretching back to May 26, 1930. Since July 25th of that year, Grove's record is 46-4, the best 50-decision streak in the century.
1932: Jimmie Foxx hits his 2nd grand slam in three days, giving him 57 homers for the season, but the A's lose in the 10th to Washington, 8 - 7.
1933: Detroit's Tommy Bridges reaches the 9th inning with a no-hitter for the third time this season and the fourth time in two years. He yields a pair of hits, as Detroit beats the Browns 7 - 0. Despite the win, Bucky Harris resigns as manager of the Tigers.
1934: Idle Detroit wins the pennant, as the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 5 - 0, in the season's finale at Yankee Stadium.
1940: George Caster of the Philadelphia Athletics allows 6 home runs in one game against the Boston Red Sox. Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin and Jim Tabor connect in the 6th inning. Foxx's homer is his 500th.
1950: Mental lapses crush Tiger hopes. Due to heavy smoke from a Canadian forest fire, Detroit puts on the lights in a Sunday afternoon contest with the Indians. Cleveland's only score in nine innings is pitcher Bob Lemon's home run in the 4th, as the match is tied 1 - 1 on Johnny Lipon's homer. Lemon opens the 10th with a triple, and two intentional walks follow. With the bases loaded and one out, C Aaron Robinson thinks he has a shot at a double play by just stepping on home. Because of the haze, he does not see 1B Don Kolloway remove the force after fielding the ball hit by slugger Luke Easter, and the Indians win 2 - 1.
1957: Hal Griggs of the Senators gets Ted Williams to ground out, breaking the Red Sox slugger's streak of reaching first base 16 consecutive times. Williams later homers to win the game, 2 - 1. Williams holds the 20th Century record. For 50 years, it is believed to be the all-time record but research in 2007 will show a 17-appearance streak by Piggy Ward in 1893.
1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game at Ebbets Field. Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella & Sandy Koufax are honored in a pregame ceremony! #MLB #Baseball #History #Dodgers
1961: A dropped fly ball by Ken Hunt in the 10th gives the Tigers two runs and a 7 - 5 win over the Angels. Hunt had tied the game in the 8th with a home run. Rookie Howie Koplitz wins his first major league game, after going 23-3 with a no-hitter for Birmingham (Southern Association). Koplitz will win his first seven decisions in the Major Leagues over four years but an arm injury will limit him to a 9-7 record.
1963: Don Wert hits a solo home run to give the Tigers a 1-0 win over the senators at Tiger Stadium. Jim Bunning gets the CG shutout. In the offseason, Bunning is traded from Detroit to the phillies and will have continued success in the National League, matching his 100 plus wins and 1,000 Strikeouts from the Tigers in the A.L. This is one of the worst trades ever in Tigers history.
1967: The Twins crunch the Yankees, 9 - 2, as Dean Chance scatters nine hits for his 20th victory. The White Sox hold off the Indians, 5 - 1, while Boston racks up 18 hits in an 11 - 7 win over the Orioles. The Tigers lose a tough one. Going into the bottom of the 9th in Washington, Detroit nurses a 4 - 2 lead, only to lose it, 5 - 4. The loss drops Detroit to 4th, 1 1/2 games behind Minnesota, Chicago a game back, and Boston a half game.
1973: The New York Yankees selected Duke Sims off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1974: At Memorial Stadium with his parents, family, and friends in the stands, Tigers Legendary Rightfielder Al Kaline gets his 3000th hit.
The milestone hit is a double off Oriole hurler Dave McNally in a 5 - 4 loss to the Birds. In 5 years, Kaline will become the 10th member of the Baseball Hall Of Fame voted in on the first try.
1976: The Ottawa Journal shows Mark Fidrych getting his first haircut since the All Star break. Jim Price's wife Patsy does the honors.
1982: In the completion of a game suspended on July 9th, the Tigers beat Cleveland, 4 - 3, when reliever Ed Glynn uncorks a wild pitch with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 18th inning and Alan Trammell scores the winning run.
1984: Tigers get their 101st win, tying the 1934 and 1961 teams for the second-most in franchise history in a 7 - 3 win over the brewers.
2002: The Detroit Tigers selected Jason Jimenez off waivers from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2002: The Cincinnati Reds traded players to be named later and David Espinosa (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Matt Boone (minors), Brian Moehler and cash. The Cincinnati Reds sent Noochie Varner (minors) (August 30, 2002) and Jorge Cordova (minors) (September 24, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2003: Tigers win their second straight with a 4 - 3 win over the royals to remain at 118 losses.
They will need to go at least 3-1 in their season-ending series with Ron Gardenhire's Twins to avoid the 1962 Mets' mark of 120 losses.
2006: Tigers clinch their first playoff appearance since 1987 with their MLB-best 94th win of the season with an 11 - 4 win over the royals. Craig Monroe, Brandon Inge, and Matt Stairs hit home runs. Justin Verlander wins his 17th.
2009: Justin Verlander strikes out 11 in 7 innings as Detroit beats Cleveland, 6 - 5. It is the Indians' 11th straight loss, one short of the franchise record set in 1931.
2011: The 200,000th game in major league history (since 1876) is played today, although the total excludes certain leagues usually considered of major league caliber such as the Federal League. Officially, today's game between the Rockies and Astros at Minute Maid Park sets the historic milestone when it becomes official at 8:45 ET. The Rockies win, 4 - 2, in 13 innings.
2011: Justin Verlander falls short of 25 wins in his final start of the season, gets no decision in a loss to the Orioles.
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Herbert Jackson 1905.
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Joe Sargent 1921.
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