April 22 in Tigers and mlb history:
1876: In the first National League game ever played, Joe Borden of the Boston Red Caps beats the hometown Philadelphia Athletics team, 6 - 5.
1898: On the same day, Ted Breitenstein of the Cincinnati Reds and Jay Hughes of the Baltimore Orioles each pitch no-hit ball games. Breitenstein's gem is against the Pittsburgh Pirates, 11 - 0, and Hughes over the Boston Beaneaters, 8 - 0.
1903: The American League formal Opening Day is played at Columbia Park, with the Philadelphia Athletics winning over the Boston Americans, 6 - 1, before 13,578. Rube Waddell bests Bill Dineen as AL President Ban Johnson presents the 1902 AL Championship pennant to the Athletics.
1903: At American League Park, the New York Highlanders lose their first game to the Washington Senators, 3 - 1, before 11,950 fans. Washington elects to bat first, but the New Yorkers score in the bottom of the opening inning to take a 1 - 0 lead. Each starter gives up six hits with Jack Chesbro, the National League's top winner last year (28-6) taking the loss. Al Orth, in his second season with Washington, is the winner.
1904: The Detroit Tigers signed Bobby Lowe as a free agent.
1906: A new baseball rule puts the umpire in sole charge of all game balls. The home team manager previously had some say as to when a new ball was introduced.
1914: At age 19, Babe Ruth plays his first professional game as a pitcher, as he throws a six-hit, 6 - 0 shutout for the Baltimore Orioles over the Buffalo Bisons. The second batter Ruth faces is Joe McCarthy, the manager he will play for 17 years later with the Yankees. Ruth is 2 for 4 at the plate in addition to his great pitching.
1915: Pinstripes first appear on New York Yankees uniforms.
1916: Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Jack Nabors tops the Boston Red Sox, 6 - 2. His only victory of the season evens his record at 1-1. Nabors will follow with 19 straight losses to set a major-league record.
1922: At Sportsman's Park, Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hits three home runs and two singles in the Browns' 10 - 7 victory against the Chicago White Sox. Williams is the first American League player to hit three home runs in a game. Given a head start on the suspended Babe Ruth, he will take the American League home run and RBI titles and become the first 30-30 man, with 39 home runs and 37 stolen bases.
1923: The first Sunday game at Yankee Stadium draws an estimated 60,000, but the Yankees suffer their first loss of the year, 4 - 3, to the Washington Senators.
1931: Philadelphia A's manager Connie Mack is honored on Opening Day at Shibe Park.
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1931: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees collides with Charlie Berry, Boston Red Sox catcher and former pro football player, while trying to score on a sacrifice fly. Ruth is carried off the field at Fenway Park and taken to a hospital.
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1937: Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are among 18 black players who jump to the Dominican Republic league. Negro League owners regard this as desertion and plan to ban the players from the league. In May, Paige will be banned for life.
1938: After significant expansion and new principal ownership, Briggs Stadium, home of Detroit Tigers, is dedicated. Formerly known is Navin Field. The stadium now holds more than 50,000 seats.
Tigers open newly expanded Briggs (Tiger) Stadium: first stadium to have a completely enclosed second deck. Tigers drop the home opener to Cleveland, 4-3.
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1957: John Kennedy becomes the first black to play for the Philadelphia Phillies, making them the last National League team to integrate. Kennedy pinch runs for Solly Hemus in the 5 - 1 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. He will play only briefly in five games, two at third base, and will go hitless.
1959: At Griffith Stadium, Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees pitches a 14-inning, 1 - 0 shutout against the Washington Senators, giving up 8 hits while striking out 15. The Yankees win in the first half of the 14th inning on a Moose Skowron solo home run - the longest contest in major league history ending 1 - 0 on a home run.
1960: A record opening day crowd of 53,563 at Briggs Stadium sees the Detroit Tigers chalk up their third straight win, 6 - 5, against the Chicago White Sox. Recently-acquired Rocky Colavito blasts a home run in his first at-bat with Detroit, and Eddie Yost adds a home run in the 5th inning.
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1961: At Comiskey Park, Pumpsie Green hits a home run in the 11th-inning as the Boston Red Sox snap a 13-game losing streak by edging the Chicago White Sox, 7 - 6.
1968: The Detroit Tigers signed Dick Radatz as a free agent.
1969: Trailing 2-1 in the top of the 9th in Washington, the Tigers score 3 runs on a triple by Dick McAuliffe and a sac fly by Al Kaline to win 4-2.
1970: Tom Seaver of the New York Mets strikes out the last ten batters he faces in a 2 - 1 victory against the San Diego Padres. Seaver gives up only two hits and finishes with a total of 19 strikeouts, tying Steve Carlton's major league record.
1976: The Cincinnati Reds purchased John Knox from the Detroit Tigers.
1978: Jack Morris receives a "standing boo" at Tiger Stadium after being announced as a last-minute replacement for the injured Mark Fidrych. Tigers beat Texas 7-6 in 10 innings.
1984: Tigers improve to 12-1 with a 9-1 win over the White Sox. Hot bats on a snowy day at Tiger Stadium: Kirk Gibson hits a 2-run home run.
Chet Lemon goes 4-for-4. Juan Berenguer pitches 7 scoreless innings in his first start of the season.
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1991: Bo Schembechler blasts Tiger Stadium in a speech to the Economic Club of Michigan.
1992: Tigers get home runs from Cecil Fielder, Mickey Tettleton, Rob Deer, and Travis Fryman in a 12-8 win in Texas. The Tigers jump out to a 7-1 lead but allow the Rangers to tie it at 7 before pulling away. The Tigers are 5-11 but lead the majors in home runs with 25.
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1993: Chris Bosio pitches a no-hitter to give the Seattle Mariners a 7 - 0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Bosio walks the first two batters he faces, then finishes the game by retiring the last 27 Red Sox in a row. He strikes out four in his 97-pitch gem.
1998: Chicago White Sox second baseman Ray Durham ties a major league record by reaching base on an error three times in Chicago's 14 - 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Durham adds three hits with four runs and two RBI. Durham is also involved in two other plays in which he advances on errors - a stolen base in which he goes to third base on a throwing error, and he triples and scores on another error.
2000: Tigers and White Sox brawl in Chicago. 16 players will be suspended a total of 82 games. Here are those suspensions:
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2004: Andres Torres of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2007: Tigers beat the White Sox 6-5 on a walk-off single by Placido Polanco in the bottom of the 12th inning.
2007: The Boston Red Sox complete their first sweep of the New York Yankees in Fenway Park in 17 years. Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek hit consecutive home runs, making it the fourth instance in major league history that four straight hitters have gone deep.
The victim for all four gopher balls is Chase Wright, who ties the major league record for home runs allowed in an inning. Paul Foytack in 1963 had been the only prior pitcher to allow four straight homers in an inning.
2008: John Smoltz becomes the 16th major league pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters. The 40-year-old Braves hurler gets Felipe Lopez swinging on a 2-2 offering in the 3rd for his 3,000th K. He is the 6th-quickest to the mark in terms of innings pitched (3,386). Smoltz fans 10 in 7 innings in this win, showing that age has not yet caught up to him.
2008: Magglio Ordonez and Miguel Cabrera hit back-to-back solo home runs, and a 2-run shot by Ramon Santiago caps a 5-run 3rd inning in a 10-2 win over Texas.
2009: The Milwaukee Brewers sent Jason Tyner to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2010: Former major league manager Kevin Kennedy, now working as a broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Rays, is suddenly thrust into the limelight, as he intervenes to stop a deranged man who threatens to blow up a flight between Los Angeles, CA and Tampa, FL. Kennedy is one of ten passengers who subdue the madman as the Delta Air Lines flight is diverted to Albuquerque, NM.
2012: The Rangers edge the Tigers, 3 - 2, on a controversial squeeze bunt in the 11th inning. The bases are loaded with no one out when Alberto Gonzalez squares up and lays the ball down right in front of him; it bounces and glances off his right knee, but the umpires miss it and the play is allowed to stand in spite of Detroit manager Jim Leyland's protests. After the game, home plate umpire Tim Welke will admit he missed the call and should have declared the play a foul ball. Thad Weber is charged with the loss in his major league debut as a result.
2015: The special appeals panel constituted to review Barry Bonds' 2011 conviction for obstruction of justice hands down its verdict, which overturns the charge. While this ends the judicial saga around his trial, it is unlikely to change voters' minds regarding his candidacy for the Hall of Fame.
2016: Paul Carey honored with a pregame tribute at Comerica Park.
2017: JaCoby Jones of the Tigers is hit in the face by a fastball from Justin Haley of the Twins in the 3rd inning, sending him to the hospital with facial lacerations. In the 5th, Matt Boyd throws a pitch behind Miguel Sano, who comes to blows with C James McCann while P Matthew Boyd is ejected by umpire Mike Everitt, along with Sano. The Tigers, who also place 1B Miguel Cabrera on the disabled list before the game, win the game, 5 - 4.
2018: Brandon Belt works the most extended at-bat in major league history when he sees 21 first-inning pitches from LA?s Jaime Barria.
The 12 minute, 45 second at bat ends with a line out to right.
2020: The Commissioner issues his findings in his investigation into allegations of sign-stealing by the 2018 Boston Red Sox, in the wake of a similar investigation into the illicit doings of the 2017 Houston Astros. While the investigation reveals that the Red Sox's scheme was more limited in scope than the Astros', it was still illegal, and the person responsible for the team's video room is issued a one-year suspension, while the team must forfeit its second-round selection in the 2020 amateur draft. While there is no additional punishment for manager Alex Cora, already handed a one-year suspension for his role with the Astros, his dismissal last January is made permanent by the team and his successor, Ron Roenicke, who had initially been appointed on an interim basis, has his title confirmed.
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Ron Cash 1973-1974.
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