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August 25 in Tigers and mlb history :

1913: Ty Cobb swipes home in the 5th inning to help the Tigers edge the Senators 6 - 5.

1930 - Tommy Bridges walks 12 Brownies, but Detroit still beats St. Louis 7 - 5.

1934 - Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's sensational rookie P, defeats the Senators 4 - 2, for his 16th win in a row, tying the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove.

1945 - The Tigers' Joe Hoover will swipe only 19 bases in his career, but the most valuable one comes today. On the front end of a 3rd-inning double steal, Hoover steals home against the Browns for the game's only run.

1952: Tiger Virgil Trucks (5-14) throws the second of his two no-hitters this season blanking the Yankees, 1 - 0. Phil Rizzuto's third inning at-bat is quickly scored as an error but is changed to a hit only to be reversed again in the sixth inning making the no-hitter a bit controversial.

1966: The owners approve a 55 percent raise in contributions to the players' pension fund. It will come from television, World Series, and All-Star Game money. Some money will also go to pay the salary of the Players' Association executive director.

1968: The Tigers, ahead 5 - 0, fail to score with two on in the 4th inning when the Yanks bring in Rocky Colavito to pitch. The 35-year-old slugger retires Al Kaline and Willie Horton and tosses 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. In Rocky's only other appearance, in 1958, he also faced Kaline, and the victory by a non-pitcher will be the last this century. Bill Robinson and Bobby Cox crash successive homers to tie the score and, after a walk, Rocky comes around to score the winning run. In the 8th, Yankees reliever Lindy McDaniel ties the American League record for consecutive batters retired by setting down the first Tiger he faces, giving him 32 straight batters retired over four appearances. New York sweeps, winning 6 - 5 and then topping Mickey Lolich 5 - 4. The four losses in New York leaves the Tigers just five games ahead of the Orioles.

1978: Major League umpires stage a one-day strike in defiance of their contract, in order to gain recognition for their union as their bargaining agent with Major League Baseball. Semipro and amateur umps are pressed into service until a restraining order forces the strikers to return. The umpires will walk out again at the beginning of the 1979 season.

Tigers players birthdays :

Tigers players who passed away :

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoytwa01.shtml
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.

from baseball reference
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110825/....f-Denny-Mc Lain
Justin Verlander's dominance is shades of Denny McLain.
from the detnews


The difference in baseball eras: The four-man rotation of McLain's time compared to the five-man modern rotation.

The comparison of these two pitchers is a graphic illustration of why there probably won't ever be another 30-game winner in the majors.

That's because, at 210 innings, which is where Verlander is now
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

Real simple: If Brandon Inge goes to first base, the Detroit Tigers probably win Wednesday - this is why.

It was the worst possible decision, at the worst possible time.
Tigers' third baseman Brandon Inge had an easy out at first base Wednesday on a routine ground ball. He didn't take it. He went to second base instead - and the result was the deciding run scoring in the Tigers' 3-2 10-inning loss to the Rays.

In my opinion, there is no defending Inge on the play.
This is why:
- The runner, Sean Rodriguez, on first base had a lead. There were two outs. He was running on the crack of the bat. He has above-average speed. It was going to be a close play at second base - regardless if second baseman Ramon Santiago got to the base right on time for the throw.
- Santiago, with two outs and a force at any base, was playing deeper than usual, and therefore had a longer run than usual to the base. It added to the margin of error of Inge going to second base.
- The ball was essentially hit right at Inge. His momentum wasn't moving toward second base. That was not a factor.
- If Inge threw to first, the hitter, Elliot Johnson, would have been out by a wide margin. The game goes on. Real simple.
- Third base was the second-best choice. Either tagging the runner, or if he stopped, Inge running over and tagging third. The force was on.
But first base was so routine. It should have been Inge's decision even before the ball was hit.

In my opinion, it was a mental error in the heat of a pennant race by veteran player put into the game for defensive purposes.

As you know, if you have read this blog before, I feel a lot of the criticism of Inge is over-the-top, unnecessarily personal and mean-spirited. But there is no defending what happened on this play. And, no, I'm not buying his explanation afterward.

OaklandPress
 
Detroit Tigers Team Notes

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=....k_det&c_id=det
Boesch sidelined with sprained right thumb.
from the Tigers official site

Though the few days off alleviated the pain, and a pad sewn onto the top of his batting glove provided some cushion to try to keep Boesch's hands from banging together on his swing, it didn't work.

"I think in trying to protect the thumb some, he was getting pain up his arm," Leyland said.
 
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