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May 3 in Tigers and mlb history:
1899: Tom O'Brien of the New York Giants receives perhaps the first intentional walk in major league history. In the 8th inning, with runners on second and third base with one out, Ed Delahanty of the Philadelphia Phillies tells teammate pitcher Jack Fifield to walk O'Brien, who has hit well all day. Then next batter, Fred Hartman, hits into a double play.
1904: Pitcher Charles (Red) Ruffing is born in Granville, Illinois. Ruffing will win 273 games during a 22-year career with the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox. He will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1967.
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1912: Leading 18 - 5 after eight innings, Philadelphia Athletics pitchers give up a record 9th-inning outburst of 10 runs to the New York Highlanders before Eddie Plank stops them at 18 - 15.
1927: In the first match-up of pitching brothers in major league history, Jesse Barnes defeats his brother Virgil Barnes in the Brooklyn Robins' 7 - 6 victory over the New York Giants.
1936: Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees and has three hits in a 14 - 5 victory over the St. Louis Browns.
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1938: Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox defeats the Detroit Tigers, 4 - 3, marking the start of a personal 20-game winning streak at his home field, Fenway Park. Grove will not lose a game there until May 12, 1941.
1939: A gracious Lou Gehrig shakes hands with Babe Dahlgren, his successor as New York Yankees first baseman.
1950: New York Yankees pitcher Vic Raschi, troubled by the new rule that requires a one-second stop before delivery with men on base, balks four times in one game, a club record and two fewer than the single-season record. Nevertheless, Raschi wins, 4 - 3, over the Chicago White Sox. He will finish the season with six balks to tie the since-topped American League mark.
1952: The Cleveland Indians set a record when they use 23 players in a regular game against the Washington Senators, including the first black battery in American League history. Quincy Trouppe is the catcher when pitcher Sam Jones comes to relieve.
1959: Charlie Maxwell of the Detroit Tigers hits four consecutive home runs in a doubleheader sweep of the New York Yankees, 4 - 2 and 8 - 2, at Briggs Stadium. The newspapers called him "Home Run Every Sunday" Charlie 'Paw Paw' Maxwell.
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1961: Another brilliant Warren Spahn performance is spoiled when left fielder Mel Roach's misplay costs the Milwaukee Braves' ace a second no-hitter in a row. Spahn settles for a two-hitter in topping the Dodgers, 4 - 1.
1964: Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants hits four home runs against the Hanshin Tigers, tying the Nippon Professional Baseball record for most home runs in a game (held by Yoshiyuki Iwamoto) and tying the major league record held by seven players.
1966: Mickey Lolich pitches a 5-hit complete game shutout. Tigers score 6 runs in the 6th inning and pound the Red Sox 8-0.
1972: Mickey Stanley breaks a 1-1 tie in the 5th inning with a solo home run. Al Kaline triples and Willie Horton homers him home in the 6th and the Tigers go on to a 5-1 win over the Royals to take a half-game lead in the AL East.
1975: Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson decides to switch Pete Rose from left field to third base, opening a lineup spot for promising slugger George Foster. Over the next four seasons, Foster will average 36 home runs, 117 RBI, and a .302 batting average to help the Reds to two World Championships.
1980: Ferguson Jenkins of the Texas Rangers becomes the fourth pitcher in major league history to win 100 or more games in each league. Jenkins beats the Baltimore Orioles, 3 - 2 at Arlington Stadium, as he joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Gaylord Perry in the exclusive club.
1980: Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hits his 521st and final career home runs against Scott Sanderson of the Montreal Expos, helping the Giants to a 3 - 2 win. His shot ties him with Ted Williams on the all-time list.
McCovey entered the Hall of Fame in 1986.
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1983: Tigers beat the Mariners 2-1 on a Lance Parrish home run in the top of the 11th at the Kingdome. Aurelio Lopez gets the win with 4 scoreless innings of relief.
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1984: Tigers' first losing streak of the season! They lose 1-0 to the Red Sox and fall to 19-4. Jack Morris pitches a 5-hit complete game but takes his first loss #Relive84
1995: Rookie third baseman David Bell makes his debut with the Cleveland Indians in a 14 - 7 victory over Detroit.
His appearance represents the third generation of his family to play in the major leagues. David's father, Buddy, and his grandfather, Gus, previously starred in the big leagues. The Bells become the second three-generation family in major league history, joining the Boone family (Ray, Bob, Bret and Aaron). Gus Bell will die four days later.
2009: Carl Crawford steals 6 bases in Tampa Bay's 5 - 3 win over the Red Sox, tying a modern major league record, shared by Eddie Collins (twice), Otis Nixon and Eric Young.
2012: The great Mariano Rivera, baseball's all-time save leader, suffers a torn ligament in his right knee while shagging fly balls during batting practice before the Yankees' game with the Royals. He is carted off the field, and at 42, the injury may well be career-ending, but he will be back to pitch a final season in 2013.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Jeff Frazier as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers traded Bobby Wilson to the Texas Rangers for Chad Bell.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released Jake Brigham.
2017: Sparks continue to fly between the Orioles and Red Sox. The whole ruckus started on April 21st, when Boston 2B Dustin Pedroia was spiked on a hard slide by Manny Machado and had to miss a few games.
On April 23rd, Matt Barnes was ejected for throwing a pitch behind Machado and was handed a four-game suspension.
When the teams meet again at Fenway Park this week, more incidents follow: on May 1st, Orioles CF Adam Jones denounces racial slurs directed at him by spectators, prompting the Red Sox to apologize and take action by banning the offending patron.
But bad blood flows again when Chris Sale throws a fastball at Machado the next day eliciting only a warning.
Major League Baseball warns both teams to be on their best behavior before today's game, but in the 2nd inning, Orioles P Kevin Gausman hits Xander Bogaerts and is tossed, even if the pitch was a curveball. Umpire Sam Holbrook explains that "there needs to be an end to this stuff". For good measure, Jones is tossed out as well in the 5th, but for arguing balls and strikes.
When the dust settles, Boston wins the game, 4 - 2, behind Drew Pomeranz and Craig Kimbrel.
2018: The Mariners announce that they have released 44-year-old OF Ichiro Suzuki, who is hitting .205 with no extra-base hits in 15 games and that he will stay on as a special assistant to the Chairman. He insists it is not the end of his career, as he plans to try out for the team again in 2019. "I'll retire when I start using a cane", as he puts it.
2022: In Houston's 4 - 0 win over the Mariners, Dusty Baker becomes the 12th manager in history to reach the 2,000-win mark.
Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:
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1899: Tom O'Brien of the New York Giants receives perhaps the first intentional walk in major league history. In the 8th inning, with runners on second and third base with one out, Ed Delahanty of the Philadelphia Phillies tells teammate pitcher Jack Fifield to walk O'Brien, who has hit well all day. Then next batter, Fred Hartman, hits into a double play.
1904: Pitcher Charles (Red) Ruffing is born in Granville, Illinois. Ruffing will win 273 games during a 22-year career with the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox. He will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1967.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvKIm96WIAI7nSe?format=png&name=360x360
1912: Leading 18 - 5 after eight innings, Philadelphia Athletics pitchers give up a record 9th-inning outburst of 10 runs to the New York Highlanders before Eddie Plank stops them at 18 - 15.
1927: In the first match-up of pitching brothers in major league history, Jesse Barnes defeats his brother Virgil Barnes in the Brooklyn Robins' 7 - 6 victory over the New York Giants.
1936: Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees and has three hits in a 14 - 5 victory over the St. Louis Browns.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvNFxcBX0AAlF33?format=png&name=900x900
1938: Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox defeats the Detroit Tigers, 4 - 3, marking the start of a personal 20-game winning streak at his home field, Fenway Park. Grove will not lose a game there until May 12, 1941.
1939: A gracious Lou Gehrig shakes hands with Babe Dahlgren, his successor as New York Yankees first baseman.
1950: New York Yankees pitcher Vic Raschi, troubled by the new rule that requires a one-second stop before delivery with men on base, balks four times in one game, a club record and two fewer than the single-season record. Nevertheless, Raschi wins, 4 - 3, over the Chicago White Sox. He will finish the season with six balks to tie the since-topped American League mark.
1952: The Cleveland Indians set a record when they use 23 players in a regular game against the Washington Senators, including the first black battery in American League history. Quincy Trouppe is the catcher when pitcher Sam Jones comes to relieve.
1959: Charlie Maxwell of the Detroit Tigers hits four consecutive home runs in a doubleheader sweep of the New York Yankees, 4 - 2 and 8 - 2, at Briggs Stadium. The newspapers called him "Home Run Every Sunday" Charlie 'Paw Paw' Maxwell.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9N2McHXkAMKvex.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5pYEXEW4AIWjpt.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5p_H13W4AEnEQ7.jpg
1961: Another brilliant Warren Spahn performance is spoiled when left fielder Mel Roach's misplay costs the Milwaukee Braves' ace a second no-hitter in a row. Spahn settles for a two-hitter in topping the Dodgers, 4 - 1.
1964: Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants hits four home runs against the Hanshin Tigers, tying the Nippon Professional Baseball record for most home runs in a game (held by Yoshiyuki Iwamoto) and tying the major league record held by seven players.
1966: Mickey Lolich pitches a 5-hit complete game shutout. Tigers score 6 runs in the 6th inning and pound the Red Sox 8-0.
1972: Mickey Stanley breaks a 1-1 tie in the 5th inning with a solo home run. Al Kaline triples and Willie Horton homers him home in the 6th and the Tigers go on to a 5-1 win over the Royals to take a half-game lead in the AL East.
1975: Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson decides to switch Pete Rose from left field to third base, opening a lineup spot for promising slugger George Foster. Over the next four seasons, Foster will average 36 home runs, 117 RBI, and a .302 batting average to help the Reds to two World Championships.
1980: Ferguson Jenkins of the Texas Rangers becomes the fourth pitcher in major league history to win 100 or more games in each league. Jenkins beats the Baltimore Orioles, 3 - 2 at Arlington Stadium, as he joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Gaylord Perry in the exclusive club.
1980: Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hits his 521st and final career home runs against Scott Sanderson of the Montreal Expos, helping the Giants to a 3 - 2 win. His shot ties him with Ted Williams on the all-time list.
McCovey entered the Hall of Fame in 1986.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvNh9gTWIAM6D6l?format=png&name=small
1983: Tigers beat the Mariners 2-1 on a Lance Parrish home run in the top of the 11th at the Kingdome. Aurelio Lopez gets the win with 4 scoreless innings of relief.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D47CzkjW0AMIMvi.png
1984: Tigers' first losing streak of the season! They lose 1-0 to the Red Sox and fall to 19-4. Jack Morris pitches a 5-hit complete game but takes his first loss #Relive84
1995: Rookie third baseman David Bell makes his debut with the Cleveland Indians in a 14 - 7 victory over Detroit.
His appearance represents the third generation of his family to play in the major leagues. David's father, Buddy, and his grandfather, Gus, previously starred in the big leagues. The Bells become the second three-generation family in major league history, joining the Boone family (Ray, Bob, Bret and Aaron). Gus Bell will die four days later.
2009: Carl Crawford steals 6 bases in Tampa Bay's 5 - 3 win over the Red Sox, tying a modern major league record, shared by Eddie Collins (twice), Otis Nixon and Eric Young.
2012: The great Mariano Rivera, baseball's all-time save leader, suffers a torn ligament in his right knee while shagging fly balls during batting practice before the Yankees' game with the Royals. He is carted off the field, and at 42, the injury may well be career-ending, but he will be back to pitch a final season in 2013.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Jeff Frazier as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers traded Bobby Wilson to the Texas Rangers for Chad Bell.
2017: The Detroit Tigers released Jake Brigham.
2017: Sparks continue to fly between the Orioles and Red Sox. The whole ruckus started on April 21st, when Boston 2B Dustin Pedroia was spiked on a hard slide by Manny Machado and had to miss a few games.
On April 23rd, Matt Barnes was ejected for throwing a pitch behind Machado and was handed a four-game suspension.
When the teams meet again at Fenway Park this week, more incidents follow: on May 1st, Orioles CF Adam Jones denounces racial slurs directed at him by spectators, prompting the Red Sox to apologize and take action by banning the offending patron.
But bad blood flows again when Chris Sale throws a fastball at Machado the next day eliciting only a warning.
Major League Baseball warns both teams to be on their best behavior before today's game, but in the 2nd inning, Orioles P Kevin Gausman hits Xander Bogaerts and is tossed, even if the pitch was a curveball. Umpire Sam Holbrook explains that "there needs to be an end to this stuff". For good measure, Jones is tossed out as well in the 5th, but for arguing balls and strikes.
When the dust settles, Boston wins the game, 4 - 2, behind Drew Pomeranz and Craig Kimbrel.
2018: The Mariners announce that they have released 44-year-old OF Ichiro Suzuki, who is hitting .205 with no extra-base hits in 15 games and that he will stay on as a special assistant to the Chairman. He insists it is not the end of his career, as he plans to try out for the team again in 2019. "I'll retire when I start using a cane", as he puts it.
2022: In Houston's 4 - 0 win over the Mariners, Dusty Baker becomes the 12th manager in history to reach the 2,000-win mark.
Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:
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