The greatest AB in Tiger history

[tycobb420]

http://www.examiner.com/american-history-in-national/the-bergman-game-the-greatest-ab-tiger-history-june-4-1984

 

[byco42]

Other memorable Tiger ABs

Gibson's HR off Gossage
Lolich's Game-5 single
Kaline's 3,000th
Fick's last AB in Tiger Stadium
...and McAuliffe's DP in 1967

 

[Mitchrapp]

Nice to get traded to a 35-5 start and WS team. Of course Hernandez was the big part of that trade, but both key. I always liked Bergman.

I was at the game when Fick's heroics at Tiger Stadium. I thought at the time he would be a staple but Fick petered out quickly.

 

[Thumb]

Other memorable Tiger ABs

Gibson's HR off Gossage
Lolich's Game-5 single
Kaline's 3,000th
Fick's last AB in Tiger Stadium
...and McAuliffe's DP in 1967

I would add Cecil Fielder hitting a HR over the left field roof, the only Tiger to ever do it. Not to mention him hitting #50, and 51.

And who could forget Maggs crushing that one off Street to send us to the WS in '06.

 

[turok]

My favs as a preteen/pre-AL DH was anticipating every former/late Tigers SP Earl Wilson's AB, who was a good enough hitter to be used as a PH...I remember that he once just missed hitting a grand-salami by mere inches, and wound up with a three run double instead.

Tigers should have tried to squeeze more similar production out the million$$ that they for all intents and purposes, completely squandered on ex-Tigers SP Dontrelle Willis, especially during the final season of his 3 year contract, by PHing him for Inge or another weak-hitting regular or bench player, like for example Lard, Everett, Sardinha...ect.

 

[tycobb420]

How's about Lolich's Game 2 HR in the 68 series...missing first was classic.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

I've gotta go with the Maggs HR to get us to the WS, the Cecil HR over the roof, the Fick HR, and the Cecil HR out of County Stadium as the most memorable ones in my mind.

 

[kalinecountry]

I seem to remember Hank Greenberg hitting a homerun to clinch a pennant...1945?

Byco has a good list there,
Lolich's homerun, iirc the only homer of his career,
Gibson crushed that pitch off of Gossage,
Didn't Kaline say that he had a dream that Fick would hit a homerun?

and to have that many pitch atbat and hit a walkoff is great, very high leverage game situation.

 

[turok]

Even though I mentioned it recently due to his retirement, can't forget Carlos Guillen's 3 run walkoff homer to beat the Yankees in Aug of '07, in the bottom of the 11th in the rain with a 1-2 count and two outs @ 3:30 am, that has to be a record for one of the latest played games ending in a walkoff homer into the wee hours in MLB history.

Edit: Also his solo shot last season off hothead Halos SP Weaver.

 

[kalinecountry]

My favs as a preteen/pre-AL DH was anticipating every former/late Tigers SP Earl Wilson's AB, who was a good enough hitter to be used as a PH...I remember that he once just missed hitting a grand-salami by mere inches, and wound up with a three run double instead.


I had known Earl Wilson's hitting prowess watching him the few years he was with boston. Man he never got cheated on a swing. Him and McCovey took the most vicious swings in memory. He pinch hit a home run at least on one occasion, keep thinking both 67 and 68.

Maggs' walkoff brought tears of joy to my eyes back in 2006.
and that late extra inning game in 07 by Carlos was memorable. I made a pot of coffee at midnight to help stay up. That was one hell of a game thread too. Kept thinking I would never fall asleep...well got to bed at 4AM slept like a log until 1 the next afternoon.

 

[turok]

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I had known Earl Wilson's hitting prowess watching him the few years he was with boston. Man he never got cheated on a swing. Him and McCovey took the most vicious swings in memory

McCovey and Mays in SF during the late 60s, damn those Giants teams used to put up the gaudy offensive stats in the NL, if not all of MLB. I used to always check the MLB teams' O/P stats in the Sunday issues of the Detroit-area newspapers published once per week back then. I am hoping to do that again over 40 years later, of course now anytime I want, but instead of the Giants, it will be the Tigers' team stats that I will be gaping at...heh!!

 

[lonesometiger]

Jim Northrup's Grand Slam in the 68 series. His Triple in game 7 was not too bad either!

 

[turok]

Jim Northrup's Grand Slam in the 68 series. His Triple in game 7 was not too bad either!

"Northrup also hit five grand slams during 1968, four in the regular season. The first came in May. Then, on June 24, 1968, Northrup hit grand slams in consecutive at bats in the 5th and 6th innings. This made him one of only 13 players to have hit 2 grand slams in one game, and the second to do so in consecutive at-bats (the first was Jim Gentile in 1961). Five days later, Northrup hit another grand slam, becoming the first major league player to hit three grand slams in a single week. (Larry Parrish later accomplished the feat in 1982.) Northrup

 

[tycobb420]

Greenberg did win the pennant with a slam in '45.


I think this is actual ABs though as opposed to "greatest hits!"